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Self Check Out

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Do you use it?

I love self checkout. I normally don't buy a whole lot in one go so it makes more sense for me to do it myself than to wait behind someone with a cart stuffed full. It's easy, it's efficient and I love it.

What say you?
 
I prefer human cashiers but not enough to wait in line if some self checkouts are open.
 
Do you use it?

I love self checkout. I normally don't buy a whole lot in one go so it makes more sense for me to do it myself than to wait behind someone with a cart stuffed full. It's easy, it's efficient and I love it.

What say you?

I used to use Costco's sometimes but they took them all out.

Almost never, but then I dont go into a grocery store more than twice a month.

I think I am strange in that I want to have that interaction with the cashier, a little chit-chat.
 
And now shy people don’t have to be embarrassed when buying “personal items”.
 
Pretty soon there will be little choice in the matter, the direction of these companies employing in the lower income quintiles is to eventually employ less of them anyway.
 
I don't use them at the grocery store, because usually half of my basket is produce where you have to key-in a PLU. I'm not going to memorize or try to lookup 50+ PLUs for the produce items I occasionally buy.

However if I'm at say, Target, where everything has a barcode sticker then yes I use them.
 
Pretty soon there will be little choice in the matter, the direction of these companies employing in the lower income quintiles is to eventually employ less of them anyway.

I doubt it. Because the machines are not as effective as people think. There’s increased theft, attendants often have to help people use them, ID checks for alcohol, some stores have taken them out entirely, Albertsons in my area stopped using them and others have reduced the self check lanes available.
 
I use it sometimes.

If I'm at Home Depot for something small then I use it. If I'm at the grocery I just go for whatever line looks shortest. Self Checkout doesn't necessarily mean "speedy lane".
 
I doubt it. Because the machines are not as effective as people think. There’s increased theft, attendants often have to help people use them, ID checks for alcohol, some stores have taken them out entirely, Albertsons in my area stopped using them and others have reduced the self check lanes available.

Self-checkouts have been commonplace since about 2008. If they weren't effective, they'd not have lasted a decade already.
 
Love them. Probably partially due to my personality. Also, they are much faster considering there are usually about 4 human cashiers with about 8 people per line usually.
 
Do you use it?

I love self checkout. I normally don't buy a whole lot in one go so it makes more sense for me to do it myself than to wait behind someone with a cart stuffed full. It's easy, it's efficient and I love it.

What say you?

I prefer the checkout with a person, normally faster as some auto checkouts suck, to people who do not know how to use them, and I look upon this as saving a persons job.

Some chains have removed self checkouts in specific areas due to shrinkage(theft). The profit margins for Grocery stores is low, and losing 3-5 % has a significant impact on a stores profits.
Was reading sometime last year that Wall Mart had a significant problem with theft and it came from self checkouts
 
And now shy people don’t have to be embarrassed when buying “personal items”.

The missus ever send you after “those” items?
 
I love it...quick, easy, and fast...and my bread and produce is bagged the way I like it...
 
Its a step up from waiting in line, but I can't wait for Amazon Go. Just grab and walk out.
 
The missus ever send you after “those” items?

I shop in a variety of stores, only one has a self check out. I usually have 5 or 6 items, so I use it for convenience. Lately I've noticed people with full carts using the self checkout, which is really SLOW.

Sorry I responded to wrong post. I don't have a "missus"
 
The missus ever send you after “those” items?

Absolutely. But hell, even young guys buying condoms for the first time can avoid that awkwardness.
 
Absolutely. But hell, even young guys buying condoms for the first time can avoid that awkwardness.

Reminds me of a joke. Young man goes to the pharmacy on a Friday to purchase condoms. Pharmacist say we have them in single, dozen pack and a gross. Young man says, I’ll take a gross of condoms, please.” On the following Monday the young man shows back up to the pharmacy and tells the pharmacist that he was three condoms short of a gross. The pharmacist places three condoms on the counter and states, “ I hope we didn’t spoil your weekend.”
 
Do you use it?

I love self checkout. I normally don't buy a whole lot in one go so it makes more sense for me to do it myself than to wait behind someone with a cart stuffed full. It's easy, it's efficient and I love it.

What say you?

I use it when it's the apparently-quickest checkout option available to me.

I neither like nor dislike self-checkout; it's just a way to pay and get started with the rest of what I want to do with myself that day.

I have a touch of cynicism and pique about merchants who offer self-checkouts:
  • The checkout function is a sum that is incorporated into a retail merchant's cost of sales and G&A expenses. Insofar as self-checkout transfers to me a share of that cost, I think the merchant should lower his/her prices, yet it doesn't. Moreover, it's not apparent to me that the merchants I patronize and who have self-checkout increase their prices at a proportionately slower/lower rate than do merchants who don't offer self-service checkout.
Pragmatically, most of the retailers at which I shop are organizations that trade in part on their levels of service; thus they don't offer self-service checkout. I rather like that they don't because it allows me to get out of the store and on with far more interesting things than shopping, which is something I do when I want/need something, but never out of any sense of enjoying shopping.


I don't mind buying things, but I mind spending money.
-- Xelor​
 
Prefer them over some cashier with an attitude. I do take my time, sort things the way I want them packed, and can take my time checking the price of each item.
 
I love it...quick, easy, and fast...and my bread and produce is bagged the way I like it...

It ain't "banana bread" unless you've got a banana sticking out of your bread.
 
Do you use it?

I love self checkout. I normally don't buy a whole lot in one go so it makes more sense for me to do it myself than to wait behind someone with a cart stuffed full. It's easy, it's efficient and I love it.

What say you?

I agree. I always use the self-checkout.

It's quicker. Shorter line. I also use my phone to pay.
 
Prefer them over some cashier with an attitude. I do take my time, sort things the way I want them packed, and can take my time checking the price of each item.

I wishing shopping carts had little yellow flags that one could put upright for shoppers like you. That way I could avoid your line.

And also includes those who wait until the cashier gives them the total then they pull out a checkbook and laughingly ask What is the date?
 
I wishing shopping carts had little yellow flags that one could put upright for shoppers like you. That way I could avoid your line.

And also includes those who wait until the cashier gives them the total then they pull out a checkbook and laughingly ask What is the date?

Feel free, it's a free country after all.
 
Feel free, it's a free country after all.

Not being mean but it is a matter of respect to others. Just as you probably would get miffed being in the 10 items or less line and have someone with a overflowing cart in front of you.
 
And now shy people don’t have to be embarrassed when buying “personal items”.

I walked into a CVS at 7:30 one weekday morning. The girl in front of me was buying a can of Pringles, a pack of gum, and a box of condoms. I think her ruse worked.
 
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